Americans Are Learning to Love the Foreskin

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'Foreskin is in — and circumcision has been in decline for some 30 years, a new study from an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.

Americans today aren't as anti-foreskin as they were when Ronald Reagan was president: 58.3 percent of American baby boys in 2010 were circumcised compared to 64.5 percent in 1979. So while that's a high number compared to, say, Canada, where only 30 percent of boys are circumcised, there is increasing evidence that American parents are generally comfortable not tinkering with their sons' manhoods (even if, since 2007, there's been a slight upward trend in American parents making sure their baby boys are cut).

The numbers come from a 30-year study published this month by the National Center for Health Statistics, a branch of the CDC. The numbers indicate that the circumcision rate in the U.S. is close to the lowest it's ever been (the nadir for circumcision was in 2007).'